50 Years of Bullitt: Taking the Ford Mustang Bullitt for a Spin Around San Francisco

You don’t get a good glimpse of it right away. It happens around the halfway point on the screen. It’s broad daylight, and Steve McQueen pops over a hill sitting behind the wheel of his green Ford Mustang GT fastback.

Five decades of screeching car chase sequences later, it’s part of many memorable moments from the film that’s likely been on the mind of everyone with a driver’s license any time they step on the gas.

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This year, the manufacturer made it a little easier to live out your Bullitt dreams when it released the 2019 Ford Mustang Bullitt. The new model’s built with a 5-liter V-8 and that low rumble sound that makes even sitting in a parking garage exciting.

Photograph by Andrew St. Clair

There’s no denying McQueen’s and the original Mustang’s impact, and the updated 2019 model’s got just as much to show off out on the road.